Cheapest Places to Buy a House or Flat in Sheffield
The cheapest place to buy a house or flat in Sheffield is S3, the district just north of the city centre that covers Netherthorpe, Neepsend and part of Burngreave, where the average asking price is £109,658. Nearly four in five homes there are flats, so the figure is a poor guide to the price of a house in S3. Gleadless Valley in S14 is next at £129,300, and it is the cheapest district where most of the homes are houses.
A £100,000 budget is below the average asking price in every Sheffield district, though in S3 the gap is under £10,000. Flats in the Barnsley council area, next door, sold for under £100,000 on average, and so did flats in Doncaster and Bolsover a little further out. The ranking covers the 18 postcode districts that have homes in them and a real share of their postcodes inside Sheffield, with flats and houses counted together. Rotherham, Barnsley and Chesterfield share the S postcode, but they are separate towns with their own councils and they are left out.
Article published: September 2026
Where Sheffield's Cheapest Postcode Districts Are
The shading shows each district's average asking price band, houses and flats together, August 2026. All 18 districts are in the ranking table further down. Tap a district to see its figure.
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- Below £200,000
- £200,000 to £249,999
- £250,000 to £299,999
- £300,000 to £399,999
- £400,000 and above
- No asking-price figure
Sources: PropertyData postcode key stats, August 2026; District boundaries derived from OS Code-Point Open: contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; District coverage names from the Wikipedia S postcode area list, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seven districts have an average asking price under £170,000, and the map puts five of them in the centre and to the north and north-east of it. S1 is the city centre, and S3, which includes Kelham Island, sits on its northern side. From there the cheap districts run out through Pitsmoor, Page Hall and Grimesthorpe (S4) to Attercliffe, Darnall and Tinsley (S9), which reaches Meadowhall. Firth Park, Shiregreen and Parson Cross (S5) lie further north.
The other two are south-east of the centre. S2 takes in Park Hill, Manor, Arbourthorne and Heeley, and Gleadless Valley (S14) is further out on the same side.
Then the prices jump. There is no district with an average between £167,056 and £202,634. Above that gap come the eastern and south-eastern suburbs: Handsworth and Woodhouse (S13), Gleadless, Intake and Hackenthorpe (S12), and Mosborough, Beighton and Crystal Peaks (S20), the furthest of the three from the centre. Hillsborough, Walkley and Stannington (S6) to the north-west and Woodseats, Meersbrook and Norton (S8) to the south are in the same £200,000 to £245,000 band.
The dearest districts are on the south-west side. Nether Edge and Millhouses (S7), Ecclesall and Greystones (S11) and Broomhill, Crookes and Fulwood (S10) are all between £324,000 and £336,000, and Dore, Totley and Bradway (S17) is well above them. The two districts on the northern edge, S35 around Chapeltown and High Green and S36 around Stocksbridge and Penistone, fall between the suburbs and the south-west.
Four of the 18 have a real share of their postcodes outside the council area, on Ordnance Survey's counts, so their averages include homes that are not in Sheffield. In S12 it is about one postcode in forty, in North East Derbyshire, and in S13 about one in thirty, in Rotherham. About one in nine of S35's postcodes are outside, nearly all of them in Barnsley. S36 is the big one: more than half of its postcodes are in Barnsley, not Sheffield. Five other districts have between one and three postcodes over the line, which makes no difference to an average. The S postcode also stretches well beyond Sheffield. It runs to Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Worksop, Dronfield and the Hope Valley, and none of those districts is in this ranking.
If you searched for the cheapest places to live in Sheffield, the ranking below is the house-price part of the answer. It says nothing about rent, bills or getting around.
Cheapest Places to Buy a House in Sheffield: All 18 Districts Ranked
Eighteen postcode districts have homes in them and a real share of their postcodes inside Sheffield, so there is no top ten or top twenty to cut off. All 18 are in the table, cheapest first. The ranking uses August 2026 data for the average asking price, and a flat counts the same as a house. That matters here because S3 and S1, first and third in the table, are mostly flats. Flats are 78.6% of the homes in S3 and 94.2% in S1, going by Census housing stock figures retrieved in June 2026.
The last column is not an asking price. It is what buyers paid per square foot for homes that sold between February 2025 and June 2026, so it comes from a different set of homes. Early in my career I worked as an estate agency negotiator and valuer, because I wanted to understand buyers and sellers both. An asking price comes from one side of a sale and a sold price takes both. The table has one column of each.
| Rank | Postcode and areas covered | Average asking price | Sold price per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S3: Netherthorpe, Neepsend, Burngreave | £109,658 | £202 |
| 2 | S14: Gleadless Valley | £129,300 | £140 |
| 3 | S1: City Centre | £130,210 | £196 |
| 4 | S4: Pitsmoor, Page Hall, Grimesthorpe | £130,714 | £127 |
| 5 | S9: Attercliffe, Darnall, Tinsley, Meadowhall | £156,413 | £185 |
| 6 | S5: Firth Park, Shiregreen, Parson Cross | £164,942 | £191 |
| 7 | S2: Manor, Arbourthorne, Heeley, Park Hill | £167,056 | £210 |
| 8 | S13: Handsworth, Woodhouse, Richmond | £202,634 | £212 |
| 9 | S12: Gleadless, Intake, Hackenthorpe, Frecheville | £205,410 | £227 |
| 10 | S6: Hillsborough, Walkley, Stannington | £220,711 | £257 |
| 11 | S20: Mosborough, Beighton, Crystal Peaks, Halfway | £233,727 | £263 |
| 12 | S8: Woodseats, Meersbrook, Norton, Lowedges | £243,070 | £280 |
| 13 | S35: Chapeltown, High Green, Grenoside, Oughtibridge | £276,627 | £267 |
| 14 | S36: Stocksbridge, Deepcar, Penistone | £300,983 | £252 |
| 15 | S7: Nether Edge, Millhouses | £324,200 | £310 |
| 16 | S11: Ecclesall, Greystones, Sharrow | £333,941 | £333 |
| 17 | S10: Broomhill, Crookes, Fulwood, Ranmoor | £335,712 | £328 |
| 18 | S17: Dore, Totley, Bradway | £483,214 | £367 |
In Netherthorpe, Neepsend and the city centre most homes are flats, and the average cannot price a house
S3's average is £19,642 below the next district's, and the first thing to know about it is that nearly four in five of its homes are flats. In S1, the city centre itself, it is more than nine in ten. With houses in the minority in both districts, the average asking price is not much use if you came here looking for a house.
Pay by the square foot and S3 stops being the cheapest. Buyers there paid £202 per square foot, only the sixth lowest figure in Sheffield, and 59% more than buyers paid in S4 next door.
Gleadless Valley, the city centre and Page Hall are £1,414 apart and nothing alike
Second, third and fourth place go to Gleadless Valley at £129,300, the city centre (S1) at £130,210 and S4 at £130,714. On the asking price you could not separate them. Look at what kind of homes they are and you can. Flats are 40.0% of homes in Gleadless Valley and 32.3% in S4, a long way short of the city centre's share, so six in ten homes in Gleadless Valley and about two in three in Pitsmoor, Page Hall and Grimesthorpe are houses.
Price per square foot separates them as well. S4 is the lowest in Sheffield at £127 and Gleadless Valley second at £140, going by sold-price-per-square-foot data retrieved in August 2026. Third is Attercliffe, Darnall and Tinsley at £185, a step of £45, and the city centre is £196. S4 and Gleadless Valley are a long way below everywhere else on price per square foot.
Both figures come from small samples: 87 sales in Gleadless Valley and 106 in S4, against 1,138 in Hillsborough and Walkley's S6. The cheapest of those 106 sales in S4 went for £56 a square foot and the dearest for £244, and seven in ten were between £85 and £178. Even the dearest of those 106 sales cost less per square foot than the average sale in S6, which was £257. A spread like that is why a district average cannot price one house. You can check individual sales for free on HM Land Registry's price paid search. Put S4 or S14 in its postcode box and tick one property type, and you can see what terraces or flats there went for.
Stocksbridge and Penistone cost more to buy than Hillsborough, and less per square foot
Stocksbridge and Penistone's S36 is fourteenth in the table at £300,983, which is £80,272 more than Hillsborough, Walkley and Stannington in S6, and yet buyers in S36 paid £5 less per square foot, £252 against £257 in S6. Mosborough and Beighton (£263), Chapeltown and High Green (£267) and Woodseats and Meersbrook (£280) all have a lower average asking price than S36, and buyers there paid more per square foot.
The two columns are separate sets of homes, so they cannot tell you how big a typical home is in either place. S36 is also the district that reaches furthest from Sheffield, with part of it in Barnsley.
Dore and Totley are priced well apart from the rest of the south-west
Three south-west districts finish within £11,512 of each other: Nether Edge and Millhouses (S7) at £324,200, Ecclesall and Greystones (S11) at £333,941 and Broomhill, Crookes and Fulwood (S10) at £335,712. Dore, Totley and Bradway averages £483,214, which is £147,502 more than the dearest of those three. That is 4.4 times the S3 figure, and at £367 per square foot buyers there paid close to three times what buyers paid in S4.
Street-level sold prices show the same split. Our ranking of the most expensive street in Sheffield has ten streets in it, and nine are in S10, S11 or S17.
Are There Houses for Sale in Sheffield Under £100k?
No Sheffield postcode district has an average asking price under £100,000. The closest is S3, on the north side of the city centre, at £109,658. Gleadless Valley, the city centre (S1) and S4 all average under £131,000. Homes can be priced below a district's average, and these four are the districts where £100,000 is nearest to it. In Dore and Totley it is about a fifth of the average.
On sold prices one district does come in under £100,000. Our research on the cheapest houses in England uses Land Registry sold prices, and it puts the S4 average at £98,223, the only South Yorkshire district on its list of averages under £100,000. In the ranking above S4 is £130,714. One figure is what buyers paid and the other is what sellers were asking in August 2026. They are different homes measured at different times, so they do not have to agree.
Price per square foot shows how much the cost of space varies inside one district. The S4 range is above. Gleadless Valley's 87 sales went from £57 a square foot to £319, and most of them, seven in ten, were between £100 and £184.
On those averages, £100,000 paid for about 787 square feet in Pitsmoor and Page Hall and about 495 in S3, the district with the lowest asking price. In Gleadless Valley it paid for about 714 and in the city centre about 510. The budget is the same, and in S4 it went more than half as far again as it did in S3.
Widen the search to whole council areas and £100,000 gets closer to an average. On the UK House Price Index for July 2026, flats sold for an average of £87,272 in Bolsover, £89,652 in Doncaster and £92,791 in Barnsley, with Rotherham just over at £101,263. Of those four, only Barnsley and Rotherham share a boundary with Sheffield. Sheffield's own flat average was £133,576, and none of the eight council areas compared further down had a terraced average under £134,000.
None of this finds you a particular house. A search for cheap houses for sale in Sheffield is a search for one listing, and listings change every day in a way an average cannot follow. Property listings sites let you search by postcode district and filter by price and property type, which is the quickest way to see what is for sale in S4 or S14 today. Our buy to let property for sale page is for investors. It shows what we have across the UK at the time, and that may not include anything in South Yorkshire.
A cheap district is also a different thing from a cheap house. A low average tells you about the area. It says nothing about whether one home is priced under what it is worth, and that is what below market value properties are. A house in Dore can be priced below its value and a flat in S3 can be priced above it.
How Affordable Are Sheffield's Cheapest Areas?
The two flat-heavy districts in the middle of the city have the lowest price to household income ratios in Sheffield: 3.0 times in S3 and 3.2 times in S1. At the other end is Dore, Totley and Bradway at 8.5 times.
Every figure in the income column is an average for a whole household (household income figures retrieved in September 2026). The £36,400 beside S3 is everyone in the home added together. It is not what one person earns, and it says nothing about what anyone could borrow. It also tells you who lives in S3 now, which is not the same as who is buying there. The one official figure for a single earner covers the whole council area and not a postcode: median full-time pay for people living in Sheffield was £733 a week in 2025, on the Nomis labour market profile. That is why it is not set against any district here.
| Rank | Postcode and areas covered | Average asking price | Household income | Price to household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S3: Netherthorpe, Neepsend, Burngreave | £109,658 | £36,400 | 3.0x |
| 2 | S14: Gleadless Valley | £129,300 | £30,300 | 4.3x |
| 3 | S1: City Centre | £130,210 | £41,100 | 3.2x |
| 4 | S4: Pitsmoor, Page Hall, Grimesthorpe | £130,714 | £30,500 | 4.3x |
| 5 | S9: Attercliffe, Darnall, Tinsley, Meadowhall | £156,413 | £32,300 | 4.8x |
| 6 | S5: Firth Park, Shiregreen, Parson Cross | £164,942 | £30,700 | 5.4x |
| 7 | S2: Manor, Arbourthorne, Heeley, Park Hill | £167,056 | £31,800 | 5.3x |
| 8 | S13: Handsworth, Woodhouse, Richmond | £202,634 | £34,400 | 5.9x |
| 9 | S12: Gleadless, Intake, Hackenthorpe, Frecheville | £205,410 | £36,700 | 5.6x |
| 10 | S6: Hillsborough, Walkley, Stannington | £220,711 | £40,700 | 5.4x |
| 11 | S20: Mosborough, Beighton, Crystal Peaks, Halfway | £233,727 | £41,300 | 5.7x |
| 12 | S8: Woodseats, Meersbrook, Norton, Lowedges | £243,070 | £42,000 | 5.8x |
| 13 | S35: Chapeltown, High Green, Grenoside, Oughtibridge | £276,627 | £43,800 | 6.3x |
| 14 | S36: Stocksbridge, Deepcar, Penistone | £300,983 | £43,200 | 7.0x |
| 15 | S7: Nether Edge, Millhouses | £324,200 | £54,200 | 6.0x |
| 16 | S11: Ecclesall, Greystones, Sharrow | £333,941 | £58,800 | 5.7x |
| 17 | S10: Broomhill, Crookes, Fulwood, Ranmoor | £335,712 | £54,900 | 6.1x |
| 18 | S17: Dore, Totley, Bradway | £483,214 | £56,700 | 8.5x |
Gleadless Valley and Page Hall have low prices and the lowest household incomes in the city
The four cheapest districts split into two pairs. Households in the two flat districts, S3 and the city centre, average £36,400 and £41,100. In Gleadless Valley and S4, where most homes are houses, they average £30,300 and £30,500, the two lowest figures in Sheffield. Asking prices in three of the four are almost identical, so the gap between a ratio of 3.2 and one of 4.3 comes from the incomes.
Ecclesall costs £131,307 more than Handsworth and is lower against household income
Ecclesall's S11 has an average asking price £131,307 above Handsworth's S13 and still has the lower price to income ratio, 5.7 times against 5.9. S11 is the third dearest district in Sheffield. Its ratio is low because the households already there have the highest incomes in the city, £58,800 on average, which is £24,400 more than in Handsworth and Woodhouse. If you are buying into S11 from outside, that ratio describes your new neighbours and not you.
Stocksbridge and Penistone's S36 goes the other way. At 7.0 times it is second only to Dore, above Broomhill and Crookes (6.1), Nether Edge (6.0) and Ecclesall (5.7), all of which cost more to buy. Its £300,983 asking average is set against a household income of £43,200, the sixth highest of the 18.
First-Time Buyers in Sheffield: Prices and Deposits by Property Type
A flat in the Sheffield council area sold for an average of £133,576 in July 2026 and a terraced house for £198,875, a step of £65,299 from one to the other. The city's all-types average was £219,713, which is more than either.
Deposits vary by lender and by buyer. Every deposit in the table uses the same 30% purely for illustration; it is not a lender's requirement. At 30% the flat's deposit is £40,073 and the terrace's £59,662, and the balance of the price is £93,503 and £139,213. Tax comes on top of the deposit, and our stamp duty calculator gives the figure for whatever price you put in.
| Sheffield property type | Average sold price | Illustrative 30% deposit |
|---|---|---|
| Flats | £133,576 | £40,073 |
| Terraced | £198,875 | £59,662 |
| Semi-detached | £239,678 | £71,903 |
| Detached | £383,581 | £115,074 |
| All property types | £219,713 | £65,914 |
Sheffield's £219,713 average sits between a terrace and a semi
The all-types figure blends flats at one end with detached houses at £383,581 at the other. A flat averaged £86,137 less than it. If you are buying a flat or a terrace, that row is the one that matches, and the city-wide figure is well above both.
Sheffield flats sold for less than a year earlier while every type of house sold for more
Across all property types, Sheffield's average was 2.8% higher in July 2026 than in July 2025. Terraced houses were up 3.5%, semis 3.7% and detached houses 2.6%. Flats went the other way and were 0.8% lower. Two of the three cheapest districts in the asking-price ranking, S3 and the city centre (S1), are the only two where most homes are flats, but a council-wide figure for flats is not a reading for either district.
Those are past readings, not a forecast. The UK House Price Index methodology says its first estimate for a month is calculated on around 40% of the sales that will eventually be registered, so the latest months get revised as the rest come in.
Cheaper Alternatives Near Sheffield
Five of the eight council areas compared here had a lower average sold price than Sheffield in July 2026, and Doncaster was the lowest at £172,305. Barnsley, Bolsover, Rotherham and Chesterfield were the other four.
Five of the eight share a boundary with Sheffield: Rotherham, Barnsley, North East Derbyshire, the Derbyshire Dales and High Peak. Of those, only Rotherham and Barnsley were cheaper than the city. Doncaster, Chesterfield and Bolsover do not touch Sheffield. Each sits one council area further out, and all three were cheaper.
The table uses sold prices from the UK House Price Index, which are published for whole council areas. Each figure takes in the villages and smaller towns as well as the town the council is named after. That lets the table include Rotherham, Barnsley and Chesterfield, which carry S postcodes and were left out of the ranking. Dronfield is in North East Derbyshire, and the Hope Valley is split between the Derbyshire Dales and High Peak. Sheffield's £219,713 was 14.3% above the South Yorkshire average of £192,257 and 25.1% below England's £293,479.
| Council area | All property types | Flats | Terraced houses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster | £172,305 | £89,652 | £134,831 |
| Barnsley | £175,537 | £92,791 | £141,239 |
| Bolsover | £182,759 | £87,272 | £142,402 |
| Rotherham | £191,496 | £101,263 | £150,703 |
| Chesterfield | £203,367 | £111,489 | £154,723 |
| Sheffield | £219,713 | £133,576 | £198,875 |
| North East Derbyshire | £253,810 | £124,544 | £181,713 |
| High Peak | £258,856 | £146,680 | £218,684 |
| Derbyshire Dales | £355,387 | £190,593 | £272,796 |
Rotherham is next door, and the saving there is bigger on houses than on flats
Rotherham shares a boundary and a postcode district, S13, with Sheffield. Its all-types average was £28,217 lower, and that understates the gap for houses: a terrace averaged £48,172 less than in Sheffield, against £32,313 less for a flat. If it is a house you want, the saving over the boundary was bigger than the all-types column shows. It was the same in Barnsley, only more so, with terraces £57,636 cheaper than Sheffield's, and in Doncaster the figure was £64,044.
A Sheffield terrace cost more than a semi in Rotherham, Barnsley and three areas further out
Sheffield's terraced average was £198,875. Semi-detached houses averaged £188,365 in Rotherham and £173,448 in Barnsley. Further out they averaged £194,799 in Chesterfield, £173,002 in Bolsover and £169,565 in Doncaster. In five of the eight council areas, a semi-detached house sold for less than a terrace did in the city.
North East Derbyshire looks dearer than Sheffield and was cheaper for every type of home
North East Derbyshire averaged £253,810 across all types, £34,097 more than Sheffield. Type by type it was the other way round: flats were £9,032 cheaper, terraces £17,162, semis £9,602 and detached houses £37,955. An all-types average depends on which homes an area has as well as what they cost, so it can point one way while every row under it points the other. If you are comparing Dronfield with Sheffield, the figure for your own property type tells you more than the first column does.
High Peak and the Derbyshire Dales were dearer than Sheffield for every type of home
In the other two Derbyshire neighbours there was no saving at all. A flat in High Peak averaged £13,104 more than one in Sheffield and a terrace £19,809 more, and the Derbyshire Dales was dearer again on both. The three Derbyshire neighbours also rose the most over the year: North East Derbyshire by 8.4%, the Derbyshire Dales by 7.1% and High Peak by 5.8%, against 2.8% in Sheffield. Rotherham's 1.7% was the smallest rise of the nine. These are past changes on provisional figures.
Sheffield rents and yields are not in any of these tables
Rents and yields for the city's postcodes are in our Sheffield buy-to-let research. We have ranked Manchester's postcode districts the same way as this page in our research on the cheapest place to buy a house in Manchester.
We also source investment properties for investors across the UK. That is a separate service from this research.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cheapest area of Sheffield to buy a house?
On average asking prices it is S3, north of the city centre, at £109,658. Nearly four in five homes there are flats, though. The cheapest district where most homes are houses is Gleadless Valley (S14) at £129,300, with Pitsmoor, Page Hall and Grimesthorpe (S4) £1,414 behind. Measured by what buyers paid per square foot, S4 is the lowest in the city at £127.
Can you buy a house in Sheffield for under £100,000?
No district has an average asking price that low. S3 is the closest at £109,658, and Gleadless Valley, the city centre (S1) and S4 are all under £131,000. On Land Registry sold prices one district is under £100,000: our England-wide research puts the S4 average at £98,223. An average cannot show you a particular listing, and most homes in S3 and the city centre are flats, not houses.
What is the average house price in Sheffield?
The Sheffield council area averaged £219,713 in July 2026, counting every type of home, on UK House Price Index sold prices. Flats were the cheapest type at £133,576 and detached houses the dearest at £383,581, with terraces at £198,875 and semis at £239,678 in between. The postcode ranking on this page uses asking prices, and a few of its districts take in homes outside the council area, so the two do not cover quite the same ground.
Is Sheffield cheaper than Leeds?
On sold prices it was. Leeds averaged £247,695 in July 2026 and Sheffield £219,713, both as whole council areas, so Sheffield was £27,982 or 11.3% lower. Every property type was cheaper in Sheffield, flats by £18,158 and terraced houses by £7,273. The cheapest districts show the same order on August 2026 asking prices: S3 at £109,658 against £143,944 for Leeds city centre and Woodhouse (LS2), the cheapest Leeds district.
Are house prices rising in Sheffield?
Houses were and flats were not. In July 2026 the council-area average was 2.8% above its level a year before. Terraced houses were up 3.5%, semis 3.7% and detached houses 2.6%, while flats were 0.8% lower. Those are first estimates, which the UK House Price Index methodology says are updated as more sales are registered.
Which towns near Sheffield are cheaper?
The figures are for whole council areas, which take in more than the town each is named after, and Bolsover and North East Derbyshire are districts, not towns. Five were cheaper than Sheffield's £219,713 on July 2026 sold prices: Doncaster at £172,305, Barnsley at £175,537, Bolsover at £182,759, Rotherham at £191,496 and Chesterfield at £203,367. Only Rotherham and Barnsley border the city. North East Derbyshire, High Peak and the Derbyshire Dales averaged more.
Is Rotherham or Chesterfield in this ranking?
Neither is. A district is ranked when it has homes in it and at least one in twenty of its postcodes is inside the Sheffield council area. Rotherham's S60 and S61 only clip the boundary, with six postcodes between them, and no Chesterfield district reaches it. The Barnsley, Worksop, Dronfield and Hope Valley districts are out on the same rule, as are S21, S25 and S26. Four ranked districts have a real share outside the city: S12 in North East Derbyshire, S13 in Rotherham, and S35 and S36 in Barnsley.
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